CNN Eying Anderson Cooper-Kathy Griffin Series?

EXCLUSIVE:Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin may make their popular New Year’s Eve specials a regular thing. I hear the duo filmed a pilot today at the CNN studios in the Time Warner Center in New York. Details about the hourlong project are sketchy, but I’ve learned that it had a lot of humor in it and filmed in front of a live audience — which I hear included new CNN topper Jeff Zucker. While it is unclear whether the project is definitely for CNN, Zucker has been looking to shake things up at the ratings-challenged cable news network by adding more mainstream entertainment fare. The annual New Year’s Eve pairing of Cooper and Griffin draws solid ratings and generates a lot of headlines with racy moments like Griffin getting up close and personal with Cooper’s private parts this year. It is also unclear how the new project would fit in with Griffin’s weekly talk show on Bravo, where the comedian has been a fixture for almost a decade and has won two best reality program Emmys for her series My Life On The D-List.

387 Comments

Kathy Griffin is such a vulgar person and shouldn’t be on any screen. She doesn’t represent any women at all…

Kelly M • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I cant agree more!!

silverfox • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Jeff Zucker, having recently destroyed the NBC network, is about to perform his magic act for CNN. They were poor-bad when he took over…now, having added the dynamic Jake Tapper, and considering the great duo of No-ratings-Cooper to the failed sitcom foul-mouthed “D” list Kathy G…the network is slowing sinking to the left!

Anonymous • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I absolutely agree with you. Kathy Griffin is too vulgar for my household.

Gene • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Spot on. I wouldn’t watch either one of them if you paid me

Justin • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I disagree, I LOVE KATHY GRIFIN. She brings an interesting/funny point of view to many topics. I don’t like Dr. Phil, so I just turn the channel, I don’t post bad things about him or wish him ill will, he’s just not my cup of tea.

Kummin • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I can just imagine poor Justin trying to decide between Dr. Phil and Kathy G. Good God! GET A LIFE (or a JOB).

So vulgarity in the broadcast world should be the exclusive domain of Coulter, Limbaugh, Savage, and Beck. Check… gotchya

DBinVA • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I find it ironic that you would chastise people about writing “bad things” about Ms. Griffith on here when she makes her living saying offensive and hurtful things about others.

abbey • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

There is something wrong with you.

Victor MAson • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Justin: so if anyone dosent agree with your world view they should be nice enough to not offer their opinion?

Anonymous • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Exactly! The ott hatred thrown at a comedian tells way more about the petty minded commenters here than it does about kg.

Sunflower • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Griffith is a poor soul. Cooper was raised by Gloria Vanderbuilt

sara • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Perhaps you didn’t hear Anderson on Kathy’s talk show telling how he had to proof read his mom’s book about her very active sex life!! Gloria Vanderbilt said one of her famous lovers was an amazing oral sex performer!!!!! That affair was a couple of yrs ago, Gloria is in her 80’s!!!!!!!!

Mimi • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww… gross.

Clark Gable • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

That was not necessary. Ewwww…..

hartley • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

AGREE!

Richard • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

CNN is suppose to be a legitimate news channel. Is seems to now want to be MTV or Playboy. I’ve had enough, I will now find another news network to get my news.

Guest • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Ever feel like you’re at the end of the line? Well, you are now. But don’t worry, there are another 54,999 people who might also leave and stand behind you.

Sharinlite • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

CNN may have started as a “news” channel back in the day…but in the past 15 or 20 years, it has turned into a hatefilled, disinformation, distorting and dismissive anything not progressive. They are part of the 95-98% media that, by their own admission, is so biased left progressive, they can’t see the truth if it smacks them in the middle of their forehead!!

Shawn P • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

If you’ve been watching CNN, you haven’t been getting news.

Obamasux • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I hope CNN picks her up. Ratings will drop like a rock.

lily • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

lol…lol… It’s suicide on CNN’s part.

Anonymous • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I doubt CNN could get lower ratings. This will prove they can.

doug • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

loser+loser=loser

Terry Williams • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Just a couple of nuts waiting to be pulled yelling and screaming into the big time!

lily • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Oh no!!!! Not more BJ episodes with Andy!!!

JJJ • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Amen to that. Putting her on CNN is not the answer to boost its ratings.

Jack • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Oh how fab! Now that Anderson has “come out” he’s sooo popular with the CNN folks!

tina • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

nonsense, Kathy is hilarious, and Anderson and Kathy having their own show is Genius!!!!!!!!!! I don’t know any women like Kathy either…..that is why it is funny….

icetrout • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

CNN is desperate…

Boxerbuddy • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Couldn’t agree more on Griffin’s vulgarity. CNN isn’t bad enough, they have to use these two to boost ratings? Ick

Sally MJ • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I shudder to see what else she would do on the air.

Bucky • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

well, some people like fried baloney…

TakeNoBull • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I hope they not as vulgar and obscene as they are on the last two New Year’s show. Some kids stay up to watch the New Year.

louisa • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I LOVE Kathy Griffin! But not on CNN necessarily.

Judith • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

This show will suck. Reference New Years Eve 2012!!

afr52 • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

The New Years Eve show was horrible! What is CNN thinking? I’d rather watch Anderson Cooper swim with crocs than watch Kathy Griffin come on to a gay man in such a vulgar and highly offensive way! Time to leave CNN Anderson, if this is what they have in store for you. You’re better than this.

Clark Gable • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I actually like Anderson, just not on CNN. Time for him to move on.

John Chancellor • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Congratulations, CNN! Nothing underscores news worthiness and credibility like the vile smears of Griffin to sandbag the narcissistic self-importance of Cooper more so—perfect for the obama era.

Now, onto the Pulitzer Prize!

catie • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Oh my goodness, that is funny

Michael Bennett • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

She’s not for everyone.

But neither is Dennis Miller and certainly not Adam Carolla.

buzzo • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Go for it CNN. Another nail in the coffin. If you ever had a legitimate idea it would die of loneliness.

Alfred Hussein • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

CNN isn’t much of a news station. They will do anything to keep Anderson as the face of their network.

Bakersfield Sparkie • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Really, It’s not April 1st yet!!

Tim G. • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Everyone on TV does not have to be representative of their sex, race, age group, etc. That is absurdist thinking. Truth is, they are as funny as hell due to their inappropriate comments. God forbid they say what many of us are thinking (not you, of course).
I hope it airs!

AmelIsl • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Can we sink any lower?

suzita pagina • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I watched part of the Kathy Griffin show recently and found it not funny. She just isn’t added value to Anderson’s resume (I like him). If he teams up with her he’ll lost that last shred of credibility.

Peter Augusta • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

You are right about this vulgar loud mouth! She does not deserve a shot with Anderson Cooper, it will lower hid stander and an upright reporter. Don’t do it, you have enough problems at CNN with out adding more!

C Martin • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

The lowest of the low ! What idiot come up with this brilliant idea ? No wonder you last in the ratings.

C

Anne Beal • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

She’s disgusting. What might be acceptable in the middle of the night in front of a well-liquored audience on New Year’s Eve is not going to be acceptable at other times on other days. It takes a high BAC to think that woman is funny.

REDHAWK • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

WHY not..With ratings in the tank why not Copy the DYING BS NBC and Copy the Madcow-Deranged Matthews show for lower ratings???

stablepar • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

1’ll bet big $$$ this show flops if it is aired

Kathy fan • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

What’s funny about all the right wingers coming here to spew vitriol at Kathy is that they have NO CLUE that the fact that they have so much hostility toward and awareness of Kathy Griffin is evidence that she is a major presence in the Pop culture consciousness. The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference. She is clearly doing something to reach you closed minded moralizers. And remember she’s as popular as she is unpopular.

You nailed it fan. K.G. IS reaching them. And it bugs the hell out of them.

robert • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

CNN is getting BIG TIME desperate!

Ungaree • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Well CNN has jumped the shark, this is a desperate move to get ratings. I think all they need to do is provide solid non bias straight down the line News (Period) and people would watch. This trend of News Variety Programming turns me off. This will not last. By next year this time they both will be gone. He’s only popular because he came out anyway; the other latest fade.

doug Z • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Yes Kathy…we get it. You’re not on the D-List anymore. You are now friends with A-Listers. Now can you stop being so pathetic and desperate to prove to all those people that were mean to you in high school that you made it! Unfortunately, now that you pal around with Cher, Anderson and all your A-Listers…you have completely lost your funny. You are one joke away from being Judy Tenuta. Congratulations…it could not have happened to a nicer person.

mare • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I agree…seems executives and know-alls seem to think we love gossip and people talking dirt!!
Come on…give us some credit and good television. There are some good stories of life out there..just don’t pollute
our brains with all this crap. I am so sick of the Kardashions and all their “wonderful lives”, movie stars divorces, sleeping around, living here and there..who bought another multi-million dollar home…how about some news ..

Lu • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Completely agree with those whose opinion of Kathy Griffin is that she ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT be given another opportunity to disgrace the airwaves with her vulgar, disgusting garbage mouth!!!Let her go back on a stage – there’s one leaving soon.

I remember in the early 90’s, being glued to CNN for any and all breaking news stories. The first Gulf War, sports, weather, you name it – they were the best. Wolf Blitzer was a King back then.

Today, I don’t even recognize CNN. I never watch it anymore and am fed up with the crap they now call “reporting”. I go to the web for news now; not because I want to, but it’s the only option for unbiased news.

Cass • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

“It’s the only option for unbiased news”
You’re joking, right ?

ChuckIndy • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

He didn’t specify a site…

TimeBomb • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Networks are no longer in the “News” business, they are in the confirmation bias business, and business is good…Useful Idiot comes to mind, and no I’m not joking, so save your faux indignation.

Clark Gable • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

and Bingo was his name O!!

BayleeBondi • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

The internet gives you access to news stories from all over the globe. Sometimes, there’s more truthful reporting from foreign news sites with more detail from overseas then from the limited/controlled news pablum that we’re fed here in the US. You always verify/check the consistencies of one news item by reading multiple sites…with multiple windows open. You pull out the consistent facts and ignore the rest of the fluff…which is editorializing and opinion.

icetrout • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

So where do you get your News… TV Box… :O

lily • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

CNN will be its own demise pulling idiotic stunts like this. Fine and dandy with me, because they were never good to begin with.

yasha • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

oh please god no!

esther • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

You took the words out of millions of mouths! Not at all good for the culture.

Ukant Cme • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

CNN needs to shut down.. Cant trust what they report to be true..

wouldntU liktaknow • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

no no no no no o no no no

Sammie Jo • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Have they lost their minds?
Anderson Cooper can say goodbye to his career if he hooks his wagon to Griffin’s plummeting star.

Not hanging with Mr. Cooper • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

“Zucker has been looking to shake things up at the ratings-challenged cable news network by adding more mainstream entertainment fare. ”

Yeah, like watching 24 hours of a freakin’ stranded luxury cruise ship. Like seriously, there’s no other news in the world than these few stranded thousand people???

CNN news has really gone downhill reporting and teasing on the same stories over and over again. I mean, come on, I don’t know how that is more mainstream.

Why don’t you just dumb it all down, Jeff, and start making Honey Boo Boo reality shows. I mean, they are real people right… and mainstream, right??? Many of my idiot “Facebook” friends post stuff on Honey…

Kummin • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

You leave Honey Boo Boo ‘lone!

Clark Gable • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

WTF is a Honey Boo Boo?

Denver • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Haven’t watched CNN since Bernard Shaw was forced into retirement.

Jerry M • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Same here!

JohnSo • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

OMG, another low rated venture from the king and queen of irrelevance.

LibwithIQ • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Well there’s a sure recipe for low rating. Griffin is not as amusing as cancer.

Clark Gable • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Not funny,lots of people have cancer. Nothing to joke about.

Conservative Professor • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Couldn’t happen to a better couple.

Jared • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Yes! Yes! And yes! Regardless of what you think about the “hooplah” Kathy Griffin creates for herself, she really is a smart and culturally-balanced person who really cares about the world, and not just pop culture.

Anderson Coopers Hair • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Hi Kathy!

Tegan • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Oh, you poor thing…

Kathy's Ex • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Nice Kathy. Nobody loves you more than you do. Quit trolling the blog posts and find a real job.

Dennis • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

What?!

Jerry King • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Ms Cesspool!

JustMe • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Please don’t denigrate cesspools

Barry • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Very funny Jared. Perhaps a little too subtle, but good work.

Gobnait • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

In what alternative reality do you reside? If Griffin really were smart and culturally balanced, there would be no need to stoop to cheap vulgarity and theatrics such as removing her clothing. Those are the tactics of a person of limited intellect and talent. You have been exposed to third-rate entertainment for so long that you have been rendered incapable of discerning good from bad. Go watch a few hours of Abbott and Costello or Geroge Carlin if you wish to learn what exceptional comedic talent truly is.

lily • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

You said that tongue and cheek…right? lol…I haven’t laughed so hard. Good joke.

slamd097 • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Oh how awesome would that be?! Cooper would look like someone just called his mama a dirty name. Go Kathy!

Patrick G • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Well that ought to do it—the world was going to end sometime anyway.

Makes total sense to have a comic who isn’t funny paired with a ‘journalist’ of dubious distinction for what has to be must-see TV somewhere in the bowels of this dying country.

Puke.

Dennis • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

CNN trying to make money on lewdness and rudeness?
Not surprising, they’re desperate.

Hard to make money these days with features like morality, integrity, and honesty.

CNN President • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Hey, if we cannot be believed as a news organization, might just as well become the 2nd best comedy channel.

Joey888 • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Wow. CNN is really lowering the bar. It can’t get much lower, that’s for sure.

Tiby Fernandez • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Disgraceful. Is this program is really for CNN, I don’t have the words to express my disappointment.

Insult, offend, be a d##che and you get signed for BIG money.
CNN is all LOW INFO, head in the sand viewers. This will be perfect!!!

Kate • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Bleecchh! One fewer show to watch — and there are so few already.

Bill's Brother • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Good luck with that CNN. No wonder you guys are last in ratings.

Roger • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I take this as a clear sign that Kathy’s messy Bravo talk show is getting cancelled?

Karen • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Won’t be watching!!

Dialogos • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

I just read an article where top CNN execs claim their news is not liberal slanted. LOL!!!!

Man are these people ignorant. And they are the end-all for our country. Sad…

Chad • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

This is enough to bring back that 80’s phrase…

gag me with a spoon

Heather • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

Must everything be dumbed down nowadays? What a disgrace

Ugh, please stop. • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

CNN is still on the air?

Ted vet of WWII & Korea • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

It’s about time! Go for it, Kathy, Anderson and CNN, and put the show on at 11:30 pm weeknights, where there soon will be no competition from any of the current late night flops. Leno has always been great, but NBC seems determined to to destroy his career again.

JWnTX • on Mar 26, 2013 3:00 pm

That lineup couldn’t win up against F-Troop reruns. Griffin is anathema to 60% of the country–and I don’t mean merely disliked–I mean loathed. Her hostility to traditional American values makes her a problem–not a solution–to CNN’s viewership woes. She belongs on MSNBC along with the other far left kooks.